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Wednesday, July 12, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
HOT CARS: Law protects
those who take action
to save dogs, kids
Continued from page 1
the baby was in a child safety
seat crying with the windows
of the vehicle partially down.
The outside temperature at
the time was 89 degrees.
Before an officer could
break into the vehicle, the
child’s father came out of the
store.
Police say the infant was
determined to be uninjured
but sweaty after about 13
minutes in the vehicle. Police
say the internal temperature
of the vehicle was 99 degrees
with the leather seat register-
ing at 104 degrees.
Cool outside doesn’t mean
cool in the car. It doesn’t
have to be that warm outside
for a car to become danger-
ously hot inside. When it’s 72
degrees outside, the tempera-
ture inside your car can heat
up to 116 degrees within an
hour. When it’s 80 degrees
outside, the temperature
inside your car can heat up to
99 degrees within 10 minutes.
And with a heatwave
already here in Central
Oregon, that means the inside
of your car will be even
hotter.
The law now gives indi-
viduals explicit permis-
sion to save an animal or
child trapped in hot car. The
Oregon Senate passed House
Bill 2732 that exempts people
from criminal or civil liability
if they break into a car to res-
cue a pet or a child.
Oregon Governor Kate
Brown signed the bill into
law on June 22, allowing peo-
ple to smash car windows to
save a child or animal that is
suffering inside a hot vehicle.
This new law goes into effect
immediately.
The Oregon Humane
Society helped push the new
law through the legislature.
“It gives people the abil-
ity to intervene on behalf of
children and animals when
they’re most at risk,” said
Oregon Humane Society
President and CEO Sharon
Harmon.
According to the new law,
before a Good Samaritan
chooses to break a car win-
dow to save an animal or
child locked in a hot car, they
would have to contact law
enforcement or emergency
services.
They are also required to
“use no more force than is
necessary to enter the vehi-
cle and remove the child or
animal.”
And they have to stay with
the child or animal safely
nearby the vehicle until
first-responders and police
arrive or the owner of the car
returns.
How do you break a win-
dow without harming the
child or animal and what can
you use to break it?
Captain Paul Garrison
of the Deschutes County
Sheriff’s Office shed some
light on possibilities.
“You’d want to find some
kind of a blunt object such
as a tire iron from your car,”
Garrison told The Nugget.
“And you’ll want to strike the
window in the bottom cor-
ner near the door handle. It’s
preferably the best way to go;
it’s easier to break out. One
thing people should be con-
cerned about is breaking the
window as far away from the
child or animal as possible so
they don’t end up with broken
glass on them.”
Garrison also urged people
to try the door handles first
because the car may not be
locked.
PHOTO BY GARY MILLER
More and more men have taken up quilting, and the Quilt Show recognizes them.
QUILT SHOW: Event
draws people from
all around the world
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am constantly inspired.”
Cobb made sketches of
her ideas for the raffle quilt
for Jean Wells that would tell
a story to go with the theme.
“I decided to piece
together vintage stars from
12 different states. We picked
out the fabric together from
boutiques using Dan’s base
colors in his poster.”
Cobb has donated quilts
to many charities, such as
Habitat for Humanity.
“I like to donate a quilt to
a family when they move into
their new home,” she said.
Jerry Lindstrom from
Redmond has been volunteer-
ing for SOQS for four years.
She sells raffle tickets, walks
the town to deliver posters
and drives around town to
deliver sponsor quilts to dif-
ferent businesses. Then dur-
ing quilt-show day she hangs
quilts and works as a hostess
to make sure all the quilts
stay safe in high winds, hand
out brochures, and answer
questions that people might
have.
She is also a quilter and
a member of High Desert
Quilt Guild (Redmond) and
Mountain Meadows Quilt
Guild (Sunriver.)
“I do all kinds of sewing. I
do garment sewing and craft
sewing. If it can be done with
a sewing machine and thread,
I do it,” said Lindstrom.
Lindstrom has been quilt-
ing for 20 years.
One of the highlights of
the show was the Lion King
traveling quilt exhibit hosted
by SOQS board member Jeff
Omodt. It took place in the
Community Hall at Sisters-
Camp Sherman Fire House.
The show was presented by
Cherrywood Hand Dyed
Fabric and participants from
all over the world were chal-
lenged to design a quilt based
on the Broadway musical
“The Lion King.” (See story
page 3.)
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